Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 31, sentence 79

But the valorous heart of Ilyá was not afraid, and before ever he had advanced ten versts more the Nightingale Robber whistled more terribly than before, and the horse of Ilyá Múromets stumbled at the sound.

Who acts: valorous heart, Ilyá, Nightingale Robber · What happens: not be, advance, whistle, stumble · To what, where: more, horse, sound

This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (valorous heart, Ilyá, Nightingale Robber), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	But	but	CCONJ	_	9 afraid	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 heart	det
3	valorous	valorous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 heart	amod
4	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 afraid	nsubj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 Ilyá	case
6	Ilyá	Ilyá	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 heart	nmod
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 afraid	cop
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 afraid	advmod
9	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 advanced	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 advanced	cc
12	before	before	ADP	_	13 ever	case
13	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	16 advanced	obl
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 advanced	nsubj
15	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 advanced	aux
16	advanced	advance	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 afraid	parataxis
17	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 versts	nummod
18	versts	verst	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 more	nsubj
19	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	16 advanced	obj
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 Robber	det
21	Nightingale	Nightingale	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 Robber	compound
22	Robber	Robber	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 whistled	nsubj
23	whistled	whistle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 more	conj
24	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	25 terribly	advmod
25	terribly	terribly	ADV	_	23 whistled	advmod
26	than	than	ADP	_	27 before	case
27	before	before	ADV	_	25 terribly	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 stumbled	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 stumbled	cc
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 horse	det
31	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 stumbled	nsubj:pass
32	of	of	ADP	_	34 Múromets	case
33	Ilyá	Ilyá	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 Múromets	compound
34	Múromets	Múromet	PROPN	Number=Plur	31 horse	nmod
35	stumbled	stumble	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 advanced	conj
36	at	at	ADP	_	38 sound	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 sound	det
38	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 stumbled	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 afraid	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not is	past	the valorous heart of Ilyá			afraid property	tree rules
2	advance	past · perfect	Ilyá	more ten versts			vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Causer more=Patient
3	whistle	past	the Nightingale Robber			terribly property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	stumble	participle · passive		the horse of Ilyá Múromets	the sound		vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Project Gutenberg book 62509 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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🌲 Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 31, sentence 79

The tree

Pragmatics

Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 31, sentence 79